Black activists interrupt Obama speech in Florida with protest.
August 2nd, 2008Group questions Obama’s concern on issues like the Jena 6, police shootings, Hurricane Katrina, etc.

While speaking at Gibbs High School in St. Petersburg, Fla. Yesterday, a group of Black activists, the International People’s Uhuru Democratic movement, interrupted the presidential candidate’s speech.
Lifting a banner that read “What About the Black Community, Obama?”, the protesters began shouting, accusing Obama of overlooking problems facing African Americans.
“You are a capitalist running dog. You are intent on undermining revolutionary struggle,” one Uhuru members yelled.
As the audience and secret service moved in to calm the protest (one Obama supporter yanked the banner) but Obama asked everyone in the room to give the activists a chance to speak.
A New Yorker, Diop Olugbala, one of the group’s members ripped into Obama on issues like Katrina, police racism, Jena 6 and predatory lending. “In the face of all these attacks that are clearly being made on the African community, said he shouted, “why is it that you have not had the ability to not one time speak to the interests and even speak on behalf of the oppressed and exploited African community or the black community in this country?”
Obama responded, “”On each of these issues that you’ve mentioned, I have spoken out, and I’ve spoken out forcefully. Now, I may not have spoken out the way that you would have wanted me to speak out, which is fine.”
At the rally, attended by about a 1,000 people, Obama also called for energy tax rebates for all Americans this fall. He said the checks would be funded by taxing the profits of oil companies.
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“Wow”! Unbelievable! We have an opportunity to have the first black president. I mean a real shot and we as a black community are more detramental to the cause than the powers that be. A small group of rich, powerful, influentual people, about one percent of the population control kings, queens, presidents and prime ministers and we “the people” can’t even stop that. Instead of asking Obama why hasn’t he done anthing? We should ask ourselves why we haven’t done anything? He’s been a public servant for years. Championing the cause of the people–all of the people. Not just blacks. All of us. Do some research. Check his record then ask yourself what have you done? Then you will learn that you should be quiet. No matter what kind of president , who happens to be brown skinned, he is. He is better than another detached, old, white, male president only concerned with his own agenda and the agenda of the new world order(Yes there is a new world order and it does not include you) only to destroy you. Check it out. It’s all over your one dollar bill and this just opens the door for us in the future to have real representation. He’s one, new, young man against many old evils. He can’t do it alone, but he can lead us to do better. We are the power. We need to stop letting them use our power against us. It’s our money, our vote, our support, our people in the military and only a few families running all of us like puppets. Using us to destroy us and make no mistake! That is the plan. Even if Obama screws us, we’ve been scewed by white men for thousands of years. Lets see how it feels to be scewed by a black man. It might not be as bad. If we are tired of the treatment, stop relying on the MAN for your job, your housing, your groceries, your water, your health. Because that’s what’s being attacked. The very thing’s you need to exist. They that control those thing’s control you. You live and die by there hand. But, if you control these things for your self, you don’t have to worry. Can we organize and do that or continue to allow ourselves to be divided and conquered?
The question is who sent them and why? Obviously they wanted to sabotage the possibly of an Obama presidency by planting doubt in the minds of Barack’s base, which is black voters and the best way to do that is to show a bunch of house Negroes protesting on national TV. It a lame attempt at stopping this historic campaign. With McCain calling Obama “elitist”, which is a code word to white folks for “uppity” and covert “Uncle Toms” trying to make it look as if Obama’s having trouble with his base voters, the Senator has a fight on his hands, but its a fight he will eventually win come November.
I applaud Obama for his coolness under pressure. He is definitely the kind of person that i would be comfortable with in the White House when it comes to making level-headed decisions. Unlike John McCain, who is felt to be a “hot-head” by many of his fellow congressman/woman and has some of his own supporters wondering if he’s had enough Anger Management Training to be trusted that close to the “Red Button”.
I don’t know what to say about our people. We want to get ahead and then when one of us has the chance or the opportunity, we cut them down. Obama is a politician. There is a strategy among politicians that we may not understand because politicians can’t/shouldn’t speak out the way we would like them to. That doesn’t make him a “sell out” or a “disappointment” to black people, it makes him a smart policitian strategically making it to the While House. White men have been allowed to be President and gotten in the White House and made blunder after blunder, messing up matters in our country. I say what’s wrong and why can’t a Black man be given the same opportunity. Nobody is perfect, Black America, and if you think you can do a better job of changing things for the better in this country for ALL Americans, not just the black community,then I say WHY DON’T YOU RUN FOR PRESIDENT ONE DAY? We need more of our own running things anyway, and we need to know how to run things without cutting our fellow brother just because he ain’t speaking the way we want him to speak.
stop shooting him down and give the brother a chance. what do you think mccain is going to do for the black community. act like the rest of the bushes. right now we have two chioces obama or mccain GIVE HIM A CHANCE
It all comes down to would you rather have McCain (who thinks that the way that Bush has everything is okay), or Obama. Black people were for Obama before he made the speech about the dead beat fathers and spoke about issues we have in our community. The problem that Obama faces is that he has spoken out and WE (black people) are not ready to change. Obama has been asking for change and we were with him, but when he asks US to change, then comes the drama. The real problem that these protestors have is not that Jena 6 and katrina, etc, it is change!!!!!
Like it or not it is either McCain or Obama. Choose wisely my people.
we as blacks need to honor wat obama is doing we already know he is going to b the first black president all we do is hate each other think were all hard we came far away from being slaves to about to control of usa all of our generation is cowards like david banner said we kill each other bang on each other but scared to stand up and fight like they did back in the days im a soilder but the rest is cowards i truelly belive we can b better so stop hating obama and stand behind him as we would have been if it was mlk back in the days we all need to grow up LIKE DIDDY SAID OBAMA OR DIE and as young blacks we should all go out and vote for obama stop being lazy theres no reason why we shouldnt vote
George, what are you smoking? I don’t understand why you think the black community would be dissappointed if he was elected. Obama is such a good role model, passionate speaker and understands what are country needs. Mccain is another Bush and nobody needs that idiot! He has good morals and beliefs and I really do believe he is the best canidate running. And not because he’s black. It’s 2008…we really do need change!!!
obama is a great presidential aspirant for all black american and america as awhole indeed obama is a president for all of as but we should stop thinking about wat he will do for as blacks but it the time for the white to know we all equal people n one
See thats wat proves the point that black people WILL NEVER BE SATISFIED EVERRR, they alwaz want more, they dont want to work for anything, lol hey blacks keep feeling bad for urselfs n blame whites for ur problems cuz thats gona get u so far lol OMG try keeping people out of jail first
***LETS ALL HOPE OUR INTERNATIONAL MEDIA FRIENDS ALSO SHOW AN INTEREST IN REPORTING ON THIS AMERICAN HORROR FACING THESE (TENS OF THOUSANDS) FORGOTTEN AND TRAPPED POORER AMERICANS, AND HOW THIS POSSIBLE FUTURE PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER HANDLES THIS VERY SERIOUS ISSUE FACING AMERICA’S LATINO AND BLACK AMERICAN COMMUNITIES ????
***WITH 80% OF THE BLACK AMERICAN VOTERS SAYING THEY SUPPORT SENATOR OBAMA IN THIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, IT IS ONLY FAIR FOR EVERYONE TO KNOW PRIOR BEING ELECTED OUR NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HOW THIS DEMOCRATIC SENATOR TRULY FEELS ABOUT THIS AMERICAN JUDICIAL HORROR CONTINUING TO INFLICT GRAVE HARM ON THE BLACK AMERICAN FAMILIES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES NATIONWIDE ??????
*** WHEN GOD’S FACE BECAME VERY RED ***
THE US SUPREME COURT GAVE ENEMY COMBATANTS FEDERAL APPEAL HC RIGHTS LAWYERS AND PROPER ACCESS TO US FEDERAL COURTS,AND POORER AMERICANS (MANY EVEN ON DEATH ROW) ARE DENIED PROPER FEDERAL APPEAL LEGAL REPRESENTATION TO OUR US FEDERAL COURTS OF APPEAL, AND ROTTING IN AMERICAN PRISONS NATIONWIDE ?????????
**** INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DENIED REAL HC RIGHTS WITH THEIR FEDERAL APPEALS !
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE $LOWLY FINDING OUT HOW EA$Y IT I$ FOR MIDDLE CLA$$ AND WORKING POOR AMERICAN$ TO FALL VICTIM TO OUR U$ MONETARY JUDICIAL $Y$TEM.
****WHEN THE US INNOCENT WERE ABANDONED BY THE GUILTY ****
The prison experts have reported that there are 100,000 innocent Americans currently being falsely imprisoned along with the 2,300,000 total US prison population nationwide.
Since our US Congress has never afforded poor prison inmates federal appeal legal counsel for their federal retrials,they have effectively closed the doors on these tens of thousands of innocent citizens ever being capable of possibly exonerating themselves to regain their freedom through being granted new retrials.
This same exact unjust situation was happening in our Southern States when poor and mostly uneducated Black Americans were being falsely imprisoned for endless decades without the needed educational skills to properly submit their own written federal trial appeals.
This devious and deceptive judicial process of making our poor and innocent prison inmates formulate and write their own federal appeal legal cases for possible retrials on their state criminal cases,is still in effect today even though everyone in our US judicial system knows that without proper legal representation, these tens of thousands of innocent prison inmates will be denied their rightful opportunities of ever being granted new trials from our federal appeal judges!!
Sadly, the true US *legal* Federal Appeal situation that occurs when any of our uneducated American prison inmates are forced to attempt to submit their own written Federal Appeals (from our prisons nationwide) without the assistance of proper legal counsel, is that they all are in reality being denied their legitimate rights for Habeas Corpus and will win any future Supreme Court Case concerning this injustice!
For our judicial system and our US Congressional Leaders Of The Free World to continue to pretend that this is a real and fair opportunity for our American Middle Class and Working Poor Citizens, only delays the very needed future change of Federal Financing of all these Federal appeals becoming a normal formula of Our American judicial system.
It was not so very long ago that Public Defenders became a Reality in this country.Prior that legal reality taking place, their were also some who thought giving anyone charged with a crime a free lawyer was a waste of taxpayers $$.
This FACADE and HORROR of our Federal Appeal proce$$ is not worthy of the Greatest Country In The World!
***GREAT SOCIETIES THAT DO NOT PROTECT EVEN THEIR INNOCENT, BECOME THE GUILTY!
A MUST READ ABOUT AMERICAN INJUSTICE:
1) YAHOO AND 2) GOOGLE
MANNY GONZALES THE KID THAT EVERYONE FORGOT IN THE CA PRISON SYSTEM.
** A JUDICIAL RIDE OF ONES LIFE !
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It is about time the truth came out about Qbama! He isn’t going to do anything for anyone but himself and his buddies. He is going to take the black man’s money just like he is going to take the whiteman’s. If white people talked about black people the way that balck people talk aobut white people black people might have the right to call whites racists. As it stands, the only racism in American is that that comes out of the black community. Grow up and go to work!
Had any of those protesters took the time to read and research they would know that Obama actually introduced legislation to stop Racial Profiling. Actually introduced legislation to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina. Is championing prison reform and assistance to people who get paroled. (unfortunately that affects our community more than others).
I find nothing wrong with people challenging Obama, but sometimes people are so revolutionary minded that they are no earthly good.
A @$!% march isn’t going to do a thing for anyone. When you will still have people facing prison time at an alarming rate. So you march? You have to DO something. So all the while you can protest if you like, I would prefer you DO something in your own community and stop expecting anyone to save you.
Obama is not a superhero. And he isn’t running for the president of the Black Community. You want people to just show up and show face, meanwhile you forget the people who are doing the work behind the spotlight.
If you go to the legislatures website, you can actually see what is actually going on in your government. Too many of us fought, bled and died to gain access to information for you to remain ignorant.
George (on Aug. 2) stated that the Black community will be disappointed if Obama wins the election.
NEWSFLASH:
A vast majority of Republicans (White, Black and everything in between, making less than $250K/year) will be surprised if McCain wins, simply because they don’t his true platform and they’re (some of them) believing the lies that he telling on the campaign trail. “He’s (Obama’s) going to raise YOUR taxes!” Yeah….IF you make more the $250K/yr.! But if YOU’re not, then your taxes WON’T be raised.
The one thing we can ill-afford is an IGNORANT Black American at this stage in our development….
I think they threw questions just out of the blue which was wrong!! I think that Obama will win the election, and that he is way better than McCain! Obama will change this world that Bush made it, and Bush made our world messed up!! or once Obama will be the first black president and someday some other blac people will try to be one of the canidates!! OBAMA IS THE BEST!!
I think they threw questions just out of the blue which was wrong!! I think that Obama will win the election, and that he is way better than McCain! Obama will change this world that Bush made it, and Bush made our world messed up!! For once Obama will be the first black president and someday some other black people will try to be one of the canidates!! OBAMA IS THE BEST!!
It is hard to understand why some black people are giving such a hard time to Obama, just because Obama refuses to make his race an issue on this election. Obama is intelligent, and he is ready to govern this country, it makes no difference if he is black or if he was white, and some losers out there just can’t get that idea in their heads! I call that pure jealousy!
I am tired of this “poor me, I am black and can’t get up” attitude of many! Stop victimizing yourselves and recognize this man is indeed the right man for the job!!
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